Improvement in tobacco-presses



UNITED STATES PATENT (DFFICHA DUANE LA DU, OF WARNER, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JOHN P. HIER, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,648, dated February11, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, DUANH LA DU, of Warner, Onondaga county, New York,assigner of myself and JOHN P. HIER, of the city of Syracuse, New York,have invented, as a new article of manufacture, a certain new and usefulTobacco-Press, of which the following is a specification, and a drawingof which is annexed.

The usual method of pressing tobacco in cases has been to have aplatform for the case, with two uprights for a cross-beam, screw, andfollower.

In my device, A is the frame or base for the case to rest upon duringthe packing, which it isbetterto haverest upon wheels. Underthe frame A,near the middle, is the shaft S, which has chains C C attached to it ofsufficient length, with the loop at the top, to reach the cross-beam Band properly operate. At each end ofthe shaft S I place ratchet-wheels`W W', with the ordinary dogs d d and lever-sockets L L. The cross-bea1nB has the usual follower F to press the tobacco into the case l?, placedon the frame A.

The manner of applying the lever and operating the press will be obviousto any one.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, asa new' article of manufacture, i's- A tobacco press, made in the formand operated substantially as described.

DUANE LA DU.

Vitn esses N. B. SMITH, C. W. SMITH.

